181 Things To Do On The Moon
If you woke up tomorrow morning and found yourself on the moon, what would you do? NASA has just released a list of 181 good ideas.
Space Exploration
Feb 5, 2007
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05/02/2007
Scientists demonstrate the process of mammalian egg maturation
The Rong Li lab team has answered an important question about how mammalian eggs undergo maturation through an intricate process of asymmetric cell division. The team discovered a novel pathway by which chromatin exerts command ...
Feb 5, 2007
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Biologists shed light on health of marbled murrelet population in early 1900s
To better understand why an endangered seabird's numbers plummeted over the past century, researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, turned to museums for help. By studying marbled murrelet specimens collected ...
Feb 5, 2007
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For some species, an upside to inbreeding
Although breeding between close kin is thought to be generally unfavorable from an evolutionary standpoint, in part because harmful mutations are more easily propagated through populations in this way, theory predicts that ...
Feb 5, 2007
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World's oldest rocks show how Earth may have dodged frozen fate of Mars
Carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that has become a bane of modern society, may have saved Earth from freezing over early in the planet's history, according to the first detailed laboratory analysis of the world's oldest sedimentary ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 5, 2007
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Male-killing bacteria makes female butterflies more promiscuous
A study at UCL (University College London) finds that a high-prevalence of male-killing bacteria active in many species of insect including the butterfly, actually increases female promiscuity and male fatigue.
Feb 5, 2007
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Physicists identify molecular cause for one form of deafness
Scientists exploring the physics of hearing have found an underlying molecular cause for one form of deafness, and a conceptual connection between deafness and the organization of liquid crystals, which are used in flat-panel ...
General Physics
Feb 5, 2007
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MIT improves protein sorting with a new microchip
A new MIT microchip system promises to speed up the separation and sorting of biomolecules such as proteins. The work is important because it could help scientists better detect certain molecules, or biomarkers, associated ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 5, 2007
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Self-assembling nanostructures of DNA -- a biotechnologist's dream
Wouldn't it be great if we could get computer chips to grow on trees? Or at least use the specific bonds of DNA molecules to get nanostructures to grow themselves right in the test tube? This technology could be used to build ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 5, 2007
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Nano-microscopy reveals collective transport of gold atoms in real-time
Researchers at Delft University of Technology used a High Resolution Electron Microscope to observe in real-time the collective transportation of gold atoms in a thin layer. This research illustrates the rapid progress that ...
Nanophysics
Feb 5, 2007
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